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Originally Posted by mikey_the_redneck
Eating and (to a lesser extent) driving cars is necessary for my survival.
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This reply makes no sense in the context of your original post and my reply.
You said: "I don't know why people blindly get vaccinated where in the past vaccines have been recalled or suspended due to adverse reactions"
You didn't make any qualifications about how necessary something was.
But if you want to go in that direction, measles vaccines are necessary for the survival of millions of people. 70 kids died unnecessarily of measles between the time I posted and you replied.
People buy processed food and purchase cars designed and built by someone else because the risks are low. If the risk was 1 in 2 that you'd die from food purchased from a store, everyone would grow their own food.
Your child has a 1 in 1000 chance of dying if they contract the measles (and greater risks of non-fatal complications), the risks of complications from having the vaccine are far far lower, so it's a simple risk assessment.
Same thing with the flu vaccine.
If people were making the decisions for good reasons with good information that's one thing, but that's not usually the case.. It's because people listen to guys that you like like Jesse Ventura and nod sagely when he says vaccines are a conspiracy to depopulate the world.